This month's Startup Cafe speaker will be Clif Burdette, PhD, President and CEO of Acoustic MedSystems, Inc., a Champaign-based company developing image-guided interventions for brachytherapy and localized therapies using high intensity ultrasound. A former faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Burdette has worked in the radiation oncology, hyperthermic oncology, ultrasound imaging, and urological fields for 27 years and prior to that worked in the development of radar systems and microwave devices for military applications for 7 years. He has managed the development of ultrasound and electromagnetic medical devices for therapeutic and diagnostic applications for 25 years. He has authored more than 170 technical reports and scientific publications and seven book chapters, and holds 34 patents. Lunch will be served to all participants, please RSVP.